Show VISIBILITY OF UNIFORMS From the New York Tribune Noticing that the gray winter uniforms uni-forms of German troops and the blue clothing of Chinese spectators could not be distinguished from each other at long distances a German officer in China Chi-na experimented on the visibility of uniforms uni-forms A column was divided In five sections each with Its special clothing cloth-ing and was placed in close formation behind bushes without foliage At about 1100 yards the section in gray and that in ocr oats appeared like uniform dark posts while the section in khaki and that in canvas were hardly visible At 500 yards the gray began to look lighter than the dark blue The gray overcoats like long dark stripes made very good marks but both khaki and canvas were difficult diffi-cult marks at all distances |